The May CentOS Board meeting recap and recording are now available. This month, we discussed FRCL, Red Hat Summit, Flock, and the Cloud SIG.
https://blog.centos.org/2025/05/centos-board-meeting-recap-may-2025/
The May newsletter is available. Mascots, events, Alt Images, Storage, Virtualization.
Myth busted! Carl George presented "CentOS Mythbusters" at LinuxFest Northwest last month.
Say hello to our new #CentOS mascot, the quokka.
#AlmaLinux 9.6 "#SageMargay" Beta has been released (#CloudLinux / #RedHat / #EnterpriseLinux / #RHEL / #RedHatEnterpriseLinux / #IBM / #CentOS / #Fedora / #Linux / #Lenix) https://almalinux.org/
#Perl DBD::mysql and the corresponding #RHEL package have always been #MariaDB compatible, i.e., you could install MariaDB and DBD::mysql RPMs together.
But the new DBD::mysql package in #CentOS stream can no longer be installed with MariaDB.
I filed a bug (https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-88746) and #RedHat said it's not supposed to work. Except it always has.
What do you think?
(Note if it doesn't work then all Perl scripts on the host that use DBD::mysql must be modified to use DBD::MariaDB instead.)
#mysql
From #CentOSConnect: Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden using Foreman and Pulp to maintain hundreds of SRPM packages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wAS7R6RriE&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=19
From #CentOSConnect: Carol Chen and Cedric Clyburn talked about using bootable containers to deploy AI workloads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDOySCVhphI&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=19
From #CentOSConnect: Mike McLean talked about the work to enable building RPMs in Konflux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORt4PDGf6o&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=17
From #CentOSConnect: @michelin using poi-tracker and ebranch to track packages in ELN and EPEL 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZLOFRw7lU&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=16
Happy Monday! The videos from CentOS Showcase are now available. Hyperscale, Bluefin, Proposed Updates, RPM Copy-on-write, and AutoSD.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuRtbOXpVDjByCPm98CCr88XLaLsPd8Q2
From #CentOSConnect: Nofar Alfassi talked about using Foreman to automate provisioning of CentOS hosts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psarnHrK89Y&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=15
The recording and recap for the April CentOS Board meeting are now available. This month: GitLab, Proposed Updates SIG, WSL, and more.
From #CentOSConnect: @carlwgeorge talked about the work leading up to EPEL 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbjS-tD4q8&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=14
From #CentOSConnect: František Lachman talked about using Packit to automate builds on CBS Koji.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFxBy8SK_FE&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=13
Gave a talk on our images today at the CentOS Showcase (videos to come later)
Aurora Helium LTS coming along nicely:
Today's the day for the CentOS Showcase. Join us at 17:00 UTC for this half-day virtual event showcasing the work in the CentOS ecosystem.
The schedule for CentOS Showcase is now available. Hyperscale. Bluefin LTS. Proposed Updates. RPM COW. Automotive. Join us April 7 for our half-day virtual conference series.
From #CentOSConnect: @Conan_Kudo talked about how SIGs can create package collections for better integration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhy14OI9RTA&list=PLuRtbOXpVDjDCM16tT5KHPbz3_Fy0vNzR&index=11
